Ah, the holidays are good aren't they? It's hard to believe it's only been a week but I'm sure my time off will fly past soon enough. The relationship between me and games over this previous week has been an interesting one, I've had mates round and we've played Dawn of War, Rock Band or whatever else takes our fancy and likewise I've been playing a lot of them alone as well. In fact since Monday I have been writing a strategy guide for Rock Band, I've put a lot of work into it and it's looking more comprehensive than anything GameFAQS have up at the moment, I've had a great time writing it. I also picked up Warhammer 40,000: Dawn Of War: Soulstorm yesterday but I haven't played it enough to really give any proper thoughts on it. I'm also looking to purchase Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 which looks spectacularly crazy, much like its predecessor.

My use of Giant Bomb has also continued to an extent and already I'm finding much less lag on the site, less glitches, everything's very simple to use and I'm still impressed by their ever-growing database and blog. While I'm at hyping things there is something I feel I have to say and that is that I like many of you was disapointed with certain aspects of Nintendos press conference at E3 this year, but just because the only classic Nintendo game they really showed was Animal Crossing does not mean that Reggie Fils-Aime is sitting in his office right now burning future plans for any Mario or Zelda games. Often internet-forumgoers get a little melodramatic and this is no exception.

Now for the weekly Bungie awareness section! Would you believe it people are finally modding Halo 3. I believe it and of course Bungie are coming down hard on them with the Banhammer. The general concensus seems to be "what all I did was violate the terms of service I agreed to and post extremely offensive content on the internet", but none the less files share privileges have been revoked and modders are being banned from matchmaking. If only every company could deal with modders that well.

I'd like to give a shoutout to one of my mates who has actually now joined up here under the name of Ninja_Duckie and I'd like to leave you all with Loading Ready Run's epic vision of the future.

-Gamer_152